Public bug reported:

I am having trouble installing latest nightly on Linux mint when following 
js-reynaud install instructions.
I am getting an error as follow:
‘/usr/share/kicad-nightly/demos/complex_hierarchy/ampli_ht.sch’, which is also 
in package kicad-nightly-demos 201904232302+d281f05~98~ubuntu18.04.1

but there are no folder yet /usr/share/kicad

Here are the output from my terminal.

alan@alan-ThinkPad-W530:~$ sudo apt install kicad-nightly
Reading package lists… Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information… Done
Suggested packages:
extra-xdg-menus kicad-nightly-locale-ko | kicad-nightly-locale-ru
| kicad-nightly-locale-pl | kicad-nightly-locale-pt
| kicad-nightly-locale-ja | kicad-nightly-locale-id
| kicad-nightly-locale-ca | kicad-nightly-locale-it
| kicad-nightly-locale-el | kicad-nightly-locale-zh
| kicad-nightly-locale-de | kicad-nightly-locale-sl
| kicad-nightly-locale-cs | kicad-nightly-locale-bg
| kicad-nightly-locale-sv | kicad-nightly-locale-lt
| kicad-nightly-locale-fi | kicad-nightly-locale-fr
| kicad-nightly-locale-hu | kicad-nightly-locale-nl
| kicad-nightly-locale-es | kicad-nightly-locale-sk
Recommended packages:
kicad-nightly-libraries kicad-nightly-doc-en
The following NEW packages will be installed:
kicad-nightly
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
15 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0 B/23.7 MB of archives.
After this operation, 108 MB of additional disk space will be used.
(Reading database … 249983 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack 
…/kicad-nightly_201904232302+d281f05~98~ubuntu18.04.1_amd64.deb …
Unpacking kicad-nightly (201904232302+d281f05~98~ubuntu18.04.1) …
dpkg: error processing archive 
/var/cache/apt/archives/kicad-nightly_201904232302+d281f05~98~ubuntu18.04.1_amd64.deb
 (–unpack):
trying to overwrite 
‘/usr/share/kicad-nightly/demos/complex_hierarchy/ampli_ht.sch’, which is also 
in package kicad-nightly-demos 201904232302+d281f05~98~ubuntu18.04.1
dpkg-deb: error: paste subprocess was killed by signal (Broken pipe)
Errors were encountered while processing:
/var/cache/apt/archives/kicad-nightly_201904232302+d281f05~98~ubuntu18.04.1_amd64.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
alan@alan-ThinkPad-W530:~$

Workaround that works for now:

sudo apt-get -o Dpkg::Options::="–force-overwrite" install kicad-nightly

** Affects: kicad (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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